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Esi Edugyan: The Waterstones Interview

November 21, 2018

Esi Edugyan's new novel, Washington Black, saw her shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for the second book in a row. We sat down with her to talk about the book's theme's of slavery, freedom and guilt; and to discuss how much progress has really been made for black people in America and elsewhere since abolition.